Lot The Man Who Lingered

3 things To Remember In View Of The Times

Noah built an ark to save the human race. Luke 17:27
Lot escaped from Sodom by God´s grace. Luke 17:28
Lot´s wife died because she turned her face and looked back to Sodom. Luke 17:32,Genesis 19:24-26
Remembering Lot In Doomed Sodom.
The fire and brimstone were preparing.
Lot lingered in Sodom during the countdown. Genesis 19:16

I Want Us To Look At Three Things Today.

When Lot Lingered

When it was time for decisive action.
When his godly uncle Abraham was praying for him.
When heavenly messengers were urging him to go.
When judgement was imminent.
When he knew better than to linger.
Slow when he should have been quick.
Backward when he should of been forward.
Loitering when he should have been hurrying.
Cold when he should have been hot.

Why Lot Lingered

He made a wrong choice early in life. Genesis 13:5-11

He found his fellowship with sinners. Genesis 13:11-13
He had raised his Family in Sodom.
His treasures were all in Sodom.
He felt to old to start over again.
Sodom was home.

Many Are Lingering Like Lot

They know more truth that they live.
They believe in heaven but don´t long for it.
They know time is short but live as if it were long.
They build their lives around things below.
They understand the battle but consort with the enemy.
They say they love Christ but don´t live for him.

Conclusion

God does His part to keep us from destruction

Christ Died And Rose Again.
The Holy Spirit Convicts Us Of Sin.
God´s Servants Plead With People To Believe.

We have got to stop lingering

Time doesn´t linger.
Death doesn´t linger.
Judgement will not linger.

Don´t linger, make a decision to move, NOW!

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Luke 17:27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
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Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
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Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife!
Genesis 19:24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
²⁵ And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
²⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
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Genesis 19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
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Genesis 13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
⁶ And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
⁷ And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram´s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot´s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
⁸ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we be brethren.
⁹ Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
¹¹ Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
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Genesis 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
¹² Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
¹³ But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
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Last updated on April 27, 2007